Sunday, May 12, 2013

L'immortalite: Madame Lalaurie and the Voodoo Queen to haunt New Orleans' Hotel Monteleone Next Month

The Hotel Monteleone
is known for its ghosts and its writers, so it is hardly surprising that this hotel
was pickedfor the 2013 Horror Writers Convention, which, this year, is also
incorporating the World Horror
Convention. TheHWA/WHC weekend runs
June 13-16, culminating with the gala presentation of the 26th
annual Bram Stoker Awards.

The Hotel Monteleone is designated as an official literary
landmark by the Friends of the Library Association. Writers who often stayed at
the hotel include Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, and Ernest
Hemmingway.John Grisham, Stephan Ambrose,
Eudora Welty, Anne Rice and numerous other popular authors have also been
guests.Truman Capote once claimed (jokingly)
to have been born there.

According to the International Society of Paranormal
Research, at least a dozen ghosts haunt the Monteleone, the best known of which
is a child ghost who has been lingering in the hotel for over a century.Just a mile down Royal Street from the haunted
Lalaurie Mansion, Hotel Monteleone
is the ideal setting for a meeting of horror writers, and I will be there daily
at Table #5 (Nonius LLC Press) in the dealers room (La Nouvelle Orleans West). Stop by and say
hello.